I’ll be interested to read the entire article, about a law professor who tried to stop the Bush Administration from assuming unconstitutional power, in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It’s the NYT, so you know what you’re going to get… Continue Reading
Polk County, Iowa, is the county in which Des Moines, Iowa’s largest city, sits. A judge in Polk County has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriages violates the state Constitution’s equal protections clause. The ruling is sure to be… Continue Reading
A lawyer in Milwaukee received what seems to be a most unusual way of a client paying his fee — a severed goat’s head in a large gift bag left deposited on her office’s doorstep. Personally, I prefer being paid… Continue Reading
Seeing the news about Senator Larry Craig’s lewd conduct arrest and guilty plea* and an incisive analysis of the power of hypocrisy to disaffect voters away from the Republican party, I find myself glad of the fact that I have… Continue Reading
There must be a word for the phenomenon of a word, phrase, or expression losing all meaning. Some people, for instance, use the “F” word so much that it loses all emotional impact, and is just sort of a meaningless… Continue Reading
Hysterical neolib calls for a military coup. As much as the author denies it, what he advocates would be a military overthrow of the civilian government. As bad an idea as you might think the Iraq war was, or still… Continue Reading
The Washington Post Writers Group is not distributing two comics drawn by Berkeley Breathed, for fear of offending Muslims. I call B.S. on that. Read the comics for yourself here. Islam is at least as vulnerable to being lampooned for… Continue Reading
Among the more ridiculous — and inevitable — events of the past several years has been the prevalence of “truthers.” These are 9/11 conspiracy nuts, people who think that the U.S. government was responsible for 9/11. The History Channel has… Continue Reading
And it’s about time. Conservative bloggers have been in the forefront of criticizing this guy and are positively gleeful at this development — but then again, this should not be a cause for partisan rejoicing, it should be a reason… Continue Reading
A lot of religionists would like to believe that while people occasionally have struggles with their faith, they always return to God. It’s not so, as this reporter for the Fish Wrapper describes in a moving and deeply personal story… Continue Reading